We ranked the top 151 pitchers because you asked, and because you liked it, we created a fantasy baseball section and ask our smart local writers to come up with three bats and three arms on their teams that might be fantasy sleepers this coming season. And because you read those pieces, it's time to rank the hitters.

I ran auction values based on a 12-team league with one catcher, one middle infield slot, one corner infield slot, five outfielders, a utility slot, and nine pitchers with a 900-inning minimum, and then ranked to about the depth of a 15-team league with the same settings. The inputs for the values were my two favorite projections for fantasy: ATC from Ariel Cohen and THE BAT from Derek Carty. I then averaged the dollar values in order to find my base rankings.

But—and this may offend someone and excite others—I'm an intuitive person, and I'm willing to push players up and down based on some factors that I don't think projections...

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